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Re:"It'll never work": a collection of failed predictions by mechanical_fish on Saturday February 19, 2011 @10:50AM (#2239204)
And that is just the first half of the quote. It goes on:

Also, mathematics may predict things which don't exist, or are impossible in nature.

As a former experimental physicist I can't help but notice how true this is. ;)

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Re:"It'll never work": a collection of failed predictions by JoeAltmaier on Saturday February 19, 2011 @12:15PM (#2239359)
Physicists deal with impossible things every day - light is a particle And a wave, far-away objects can be receeding faster than the speed of light.
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Re:"It'll never work": a collection of failed predictions by dtc on Sunday February 20, 2011 @02:35PM (#2242759)
How are they impossible if they are happening?
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Re:"It'll never work": a collection of failed predictions by JoeAltmaier on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:41PM (#2242992)
In the macroscopic world, they make no sense.

Somebody said "the Universe isn't just stranger than you imagine; its stranger than you Can imagine"

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